Software Piracy Hurts Linux Adoption, Research Finds

EFA11 · Feb 23, 2016

“I find that an increase in the piracy rate by 1% in a country is expected reduce the user share of Linux by around 0.5%. Although there is some level of uncertainty on the exact estimate, the direction is negative with a high level of statistical certainty,” Gramstad explains to TorrentFreak.
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This means that if all piracy was to disappear the number of Linux users would increase by 50%.
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I'm like OMG!

While that’s an impressive number, the relative impact is modest. In most countries Linux is used by roughly 1% of desktop users, which would increase to 1.5%.
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Source:
https://torrentfreak.com/software-piracy-hurts-linux-adoption-research-finds-160221/

Software Piracy Hurts Linux Adoption, Research Finds

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